Family Support and Family Caregiving across Disabilities - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415682681 ISBN 13: 9780415682688

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Family members provide the majority of care for individuals with disabilities in the United States. Recognition is growing that family caregiving deserves and may require societal support, and evidence-based practices have been established for reducing stress associated with caregiving. Despite the substantial research literature on family support that has developed, researchers, advocates and professionals have often worked in separate categorical domains such as family support for caregiving for the frail elderly, for individuals with mental illness, or for people with development disabilities.

Family Support and Family Caregiving across Disabilities addresses this significant limitation through cross-categorical and lifespan analyses of family support and family caregiving from the perspectives of theory and conceptual frameworks, empirical research, and frameworks and recommendations for improvements in public policy. The book also examines children with disabilities, children with autism, adults with schizophrenia, and individuals with cancer across the life cycle.

This book was published as a two-part special issue in the Journal of Family Social Work.

About this title

About the Author:

George H.S. Singer is based at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

David E. Biegel is based at Case Western Reserve University, USA.

Patricia Conway is based at Mayville State University, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0415682681
• ISBN 13: 9780415682688
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 214
• Editor: Singer George, Biegel David, Conway Patricia